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TSX-V Trading Symbol: HRC Tel.: +1 604 638 8007 E-mail: info@helioresource.com Website: www.helioresource.com VANCOUVER, Sept. 29 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ - Helio Resource Corp. ("Helio" or the "Company") (TSX-V: HRC) is pleased to provide the following update from the SMP Gold Project in the Lupa Goldfields, SW Tanzania. The main topics of this update include: - Progress towards the first NI 43-101 compliant resource statement for the Porcupine and...
MT. AIRY, N.C., Sept. 21 /PRNewswire/ -- Pike Electric Corporation (NYSE: PIKE), one of the nation's leading energy solutions providers, and Symbion Power LLC have been awarded two major new energy contracts under the Millennium Challenge Compact (MCC) which was signed between the governments of the United States of America and the United Republic of Tanzania in 2008. These two contracts valued at nearly $65 million were awarded by the Millennium Challenge Account - Tanzania...
The Tanzanian government's plan to build a 31-mile highway into the Serengeti would devastate one of the planet's last great wildlife sanctuaries, biologists warned Wednesday. 27 experts on biodiversity in a commentary, published in the journal Nature, said: "the road will cause an environmental disaster." The experts urged Tanzanian officials to use an alternate route that runs further south of the Serengeti. The alternate route would be around 155 miles farther south, below the Ngorongoro...
The Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) and the Zoological Society of London (ZSL) are requesting that the Government of Tanzania reconsider the proposed construction of a commercial road through the world's best known wildlife sanctuary"”Serengeti National Park"”and recommend that alternative routes be used that can meet the transportation needs of the region without disrupting the greatest remaining migration of large land animals in the world.At issue is the proposed Arusha-Musoma...
Tiny toads, extinct in the wild, now reside in propagation center in Dar es Salaam after being bred by Toledo Zoo and Bronx ZooIn a bold effort to save one of the world's rarest amphibians from extinction, one hundred Kihansi spray toads have been flown home to Tanzania after being painstakingly reared at the Bronx Zoo and The Toledo Zoo working in close partnership with the Tanzanian government and the World Bank.The toads now reside at a new, state-of the-art propagation center in Dar es...
KNOXVILLE, Tenn., July 28 /PRNewswire/ -- Jewelry Television® (JTV), the world's largest retailer of loose gemstones, recently announced the premiere of Tanzanite: The One Generation Gemstone, a documentary-style DVD that explores the history, lore and mining of tanzanite, one of the world's highly sought-after gemstones. Tanzanite: The One Generation Gemstone is part of Jewelry Television's Gemstone Adventure Series collection of DVD documentaries. To view the multimedia assets...
- Main Zone extended 100m to the west - High Grades Intersected at Quill Zone - New Mineralisation outlined at NW and NE Zones TSX-V Trading Symbol: HRC Tel.: +1 604 638 8007 E-mail: info@helioresource.com Website: www.helioresource.com VANCOUVER, July 26 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ - Helio Resource Corp. ("Helio" or the "Company") (TSX-V: HRC) is pleased to report all remaining results for the 2010 RC and diamond drill programme recently...
Giving out cash can be an effective tool in combating sexually transmitted infections in rural Africa, according to a new study conducted jointly by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, the Development Research Group at the World Bank and the Ifakara Health Institute in Tanzania.The study, to be presented Sunday, July 18, at the International AIDS Conference in Vienna, Austria, found that people who were offered up to $60 each over 12 months to stay free of STIs had a 25...
TSX-V Trading Symbol: HRC VANCOUVER, June 2 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ - Helio Resource Corp. ("Helio" or the "Company") (TSX-V: HRC) is pleased to report the latest results from the 2010 diamond drill programme at the SMP Gold Project in the Lupa Goldfields, Tanzania. These results confirm the presence of a NW trending mineralised zone that appears to extend northwest from the Porcupine to the Quill Target over a strike length of at least 250m. Porcupine --------- Two drill holes...
32 critically endangered East African black rhinos are set to be flown from South Africa back to their habitat in Tanzania's Serengeti Park, and so far 5 have made it as of Friday. The rhinos had been bred from a group that was rescued from the Serengeti in the 1960s and relocated to South Africa to prevent extinction of the species by poachers. Widespread poaching in the Serengeti in the 60s and 70s saw the population of the black rhinos in Tanzania dwindle from over 1,000 to just 70....
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The southern reedbuck (Redunca arundinum), also known as the common reedbuck or the rietbok, is a species of antelope that can be found in southern Africa. Its range extends from Tanzania and Gabon to South Africa, including Angola, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Malawi, Namibia, and Zambia, among other areas. It prefers a habitat within grasslands, woodlands, pastures, and valleys. This species uses reeds and other tall vegetation located near water to remain hidden from predators....
The southern tree hyrax (Dendrohyrax arboreus), also known as the southern tree dassie, eastern tree hyrax, or eastern tree dassie, can be found in many areas including Angola, Kenya, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, South Africa, and Tanzania. It prefers a habitat within topical or subtropical arid and moist lowland forests, as well as temperate forests and moist savannah or rocky areas. The southern tree hyrax differs from the rock hyrax in that is nocturnal and resides in trees,...
The grey-faced Sengi (Rhynchocyon udzungwensis) is an elephant shrew that is native to south-central Tanzania, specifically the Udzungwa Mountains. It was found in 2005, in a small area of the Udzungwa Mountains, the Ndundulu Forest. This discovery was considered monumental, as there had been no discoveries of any new elephant shrew species for over a century. The grey-faced sengi occurs in two known populations, within a very small area of its habitat reaching 120 square miles. It resides...
Grant’s gazelle (Nanger granti) is native to Africa. Its northern range of Tanzania extends south to Ethiopia and the Sudan, and from the coast of Kenya to Lake Victoria. It prefers habitats within shrub lands and grass plains, but can also be found in regions that are more arid. In Swahili, Grant’s gazelle is called Swala Granti. It was placed within the Nanger subgenus of the genus Gazella, before Nanger became a separate genus. Grant’s gazelle holds five recognized subspecies. The...
Elaphrosaurus or "lightweight lizard" is a genus of carnivorous dinosaur from the Late Jurassic Period. It lived in what is now the Kimmeridgian state of Tanzania. Its skeleton was found in the Tendaguru Beds of Tanzania. A related animal was found in the Morrison Formation of the western United States. Most fossils of theropods found have only been fragments, until the discovery of a single nearly complete skeleton of Elaphrosaurus. It did not contain the skull. Elaphrosaurus was about...
